Soil Test Crop Response based Fertilizer Equations for Bt Cotton under Rainfed Situation in Vertisol

Biosafety of Bt-crop in soil ecosystem: A review

Transgenic crops, a new product of agricultural biotechnology has its own share of environmental risks and benefits. Present agricultural management practices and new ecosystems have their own impacts on the environment and further any additional negative effect of transgenic crops may mitigate their positive impacts as well as increase the background value of negative impacts due to new agricu...

EFFECT OF Bt-TRANSGENIC COTTON ON SOIL BIOLOGICAL HEALTH

Bt cotton are plants that have been genetically modified to express the insecticidal proteins Cry 1 Ac from subspecies of the bacterium, Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis (Bt), to control bollworm pest that feed on cotton. There is a persistent environmental concern that transgenic Bt-crops carry genes that have indirect undesirable effect to natural and agro– ecosystem function. We investigat...

Bt COTTON IN INDIA

Crop Diversity Delays Evolution of Insect Resistance to Bt Cotton in China

Drought Frontiers in Rice: Crop Improvement for Increased Rainfed Production

The success of the Green Revolution in closing the gap between world population and food production was principally achieved by increasing crop productivity in favorable areas. However, this success has been limited in the rainfed systems, which are prone to frequent droughts and other abiotic stresses. Worldwide, drought affects approximately 23 million hectares of rainfed rice. Varieties comb...